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Der I am using the silt up to the AMI. I will put it on first; I'm not using it as road bed but as earth where there is normally earth on the layout. I will paint on about a 70/30% ratio of white glue to water on the MDF (what I am using) and let it dry. After I have done that, I will then apply the ballast, using white glue/water 50/50% mixture. Avondale An excellent idea around your turnouts - worthy of being printed out and saved. I still have, afer laying 120 feet of layout, another 180 feet or more of layout to go. Your method sounds the best I have seen so far. About sand: The same guy who introduced me to silt also used train engine sand as his ballast on his HO layout. He is now retired, but was a maintance manager for CN at the Thorton yard. He took a bag of train sand home with him and used it for his ballast - again no problems over the years and it looks great. Its too big for N scale ballast, or I would use that as well.
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